Saving an iMovie 3.0.3 project

How should I save the movie I have without burning another DVD? I still have the project in iMovie and want to remove it because it uses so much space. I burned it and gave the DVD as a gift a few months ago. It took 22 hours to burn a 16 minute movie, using Toast 6/LaCie. I feel if I could save the data on a cd or dvd, I may have superdrive in the future. I'm using iMovie 3.0.3.
Any suggestions?
iMac DV+   Mac OS X (10.3.8)  

Do you have a DV camera? Then export back to tape.
I use Retrospect backup from http://www.dantz.com/ and a stack of empty DVD-Rs. It will not compress anything on the DVDs, but it will restore exactly what you backed up. If you back up your Project folder, you will be able to restore it EXACTLY as you left it and can continue editing.
You can do this with toast if you fit the clips to the DVDs yourself, remember to copy each and every clip.
Using Retrospect you can backup and restore anything on your hard drive(s), even your System. It will keep track of what went to which DVD for you. You get incremental backups, backing up only files that changed since the last backup.
If you just export back to tape, you can never undo a title, transition or effect.

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